minimum income for worker to meet basic needs
Recently, I was researching on an economic modeling company called Regional Economic Modeling, Inc., better known as REMI. REMI is one of several companies that produce economic models used by…
No, it’s not the Onion; it’s the New York Times. Columnist Ginia Bellafante explains: On Jan. 1, the new minimum wage, set at $15 an hour, went into effect in…
On Tuesday, Raleigh announced that they would be increasing pay for some city workers. This was unusual in a couple of respects. First, it’s mid-year. That rarely happens. Usually, the…
This week, the Raleigh City Council adopted a Universal Living Wage policy. They’re not the first city in the North Carolina to do so, and they’ll likely not be the…
Thomas Sowell‘s latest column at Human Events focuses on words he labels “toxic.” One of these words is “entitlement.” To hear some politicians tell it, we are all entitled to…
From the Winston-Salem Journal: The majority of today’s food preparation, retail and cashier jobs — the first entry-level employment for many teens and adults — may not exist within a…
A couple things I don’t like about government accounting have been gnawing. One is the City of Asheville’s New McKibbon Standard for hotel development. The logic goes something like: City…
Like I said, we’re going to need ordinances to prevent developers from taking projects to other towns. Maybe that’s why the prescient legislature worked to outlaw municipal licensing. Defeated Asheville…
Normally, one associates progressive causes with protests. So, it was a surprise to see App State Student Power marching to support academics over athletics and complain that student parking spaces…
The City of Asheville will be raising the minimum wage it pays, and expanding the applicability of its living wage provisions to all employees. Economists and Just Economics will continue…
Those investigative reporters at the local daily have learned what the Buncombe County Commissioners could not tell us before the public hearing. Deschutes, the nation’s seventh largest craft brewer, was…
Transylvania County is revamping its economic development incentives program to clarify what community benefits it will require. Two persons provided public input on the policy. One wanted to demand businesses…